Top Hispanic Legal Group To Jeff Sessions: “We Expect Better”

" "This one’s pretty rough — yet another sign that the GOP’s attacks on Sonia Sotomayor are putting their standing with Latinos at serious risk."" Sen. Jeff Sessions is another shining example of an old southern politician, and another reason to not reelect him. " "In...

Ala. City Wants to Bring Back Prohibition

The city of Athen, Alabama, pop. about 22,000, is set to vote on a church-led proposal to ban all sales of alcohol in town (possession and consumption would remain legal). The story's not totally nuts, of course -- the southern US is dotted with dry counties (and, seemingly,...

Information war: Feds close science libraries

"The NASA library in Greenbelt, Md., was part of John C. Mather's daily routine for years leading up to the astrophysicist's 2006 Nobel Prize for shedding new light on the Big Bang theory of universal origin. He researched existing space hardware and instrumentation there...